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Watercolor: Counting my Blessings (Self Portrait)
Published on 2010-08-24 17:30:00
Counting my Blessings 9.5 x 5.5 Graphite & Watercolor on Arches Cold Press paperMy son just moved into a cozy, affable house, shared with a couple of his friends a little closer to the campus of Cal State Northridge where he's majoring in Journalism. His absence here at home will take some getting used to. I went through this when his sister got married four years ago, and I'm afraid I'm no better at coping now than I was then. My desk is right next to his vacant room, which was such a distracti
Watercolor: Baby's First Peach (& a painting by Vicky Knowles)
Published on 2010-08-20 17:00:00
Baby's First Peach 4.4 x 6.7 Graphite & Watercolor on Moleskin Watercolor paperI'm still playing with small studies for larger paintings in my nifty new moleskin watercolor sketchbook. Pencil sketch first, rubbed down with paper towel, erased high lights, more paper towel buffing, more erasing and adding graphite, a la David Kassan's method, then re-built, in sequence like that, followed by a few glazes of watercolor to the finished version at the top of this post. Rusty (Junior Cyclops) 3.5 x
Watercolor: Study for Practiced Resolve (& a painting by Jonathan Aller)
Published on 2010-08-16 09:18:00
Study for Practiced Resolve 4.3 x 6.8 on Moleskin Watercolor paperI'm in the planning stages for some new work for a show in the Spring, and I'm trying to test the ideas here on a small scale. I wish I could get by on 2-3 hours of sleep, because I have so many ideas. It's good to be on fire.Under drawing in my groovy new moleskin watercolor sketchbook.Habanero Peppers 8x10 oil on board by Jon Aller You can see Jon's process shots of this little gem here.I started collecting art online in 2004-5
